Automobile-bumper.



F. LEDERER.l

AUTOMOBILE BUMPER.

APPLICATION flu-:o ocr. 26, 191s.

Mmm/'5 YE ends 30 of the U-bolt against the under sideA of the portion 24 of thebracket 6. The upright portion 23 of the bracket is provided bar and wnosesiae portions engage both sides of the side bar and pass through apertures in the portions 24 ofthe'braeket 6,' -said portion -24 being drawn up. tightly against the under side of the side 4bar by tightening up the nuts 29 on the threaded with a lengthwise extending recess 31 adjacent the one side of theU-bolt solthat a portion of the bracket abuts against the U-bolt to transmit the shock of il'npact from the bumper.' bar 5 and brackets 6 through the U-bolt 28 to the side bars.

In this ermstruction when the bumper v'bar is subjected to shock, the yielding Connection between the baraild th'e'braekct will' tend to absorb the shock and the Shock serrated portion of thebracket gri the side bar, which is generell pered and thus forming a we ment between the U-boltand the bracket.

' 'The brackets shown and described may be ping Ainto s ightly taused in connection with any suitable buffer bar which may be rigidly or yieldingly connected to said braekets ,angledl member Ihavin to be respectively disposed against tion and fitting over the top .of impact' .will be transmitted from the' bracket through the clamping bolt to the side bar, a' tensional vstrain being imposed upon the Ubo1t 28, the

recess* therein, said lateral ging engageinvention is:

What I'claim as my et consisting of an LA. bumper brac and a laterally .exten ing portion adapted the bottom of the side frame member of an automobile, said laterally extending portion 'ha'ving` apertures therein, .and a U-bolt clamp disposed in line with the upright porand sides of the side bar and having its ends. passing through the apertures in the bracket to secure the.

tion having apertures therein, and'alU-bolt vfitting overthe top and. sides ofthe side bar and having one slde disposed in the 'recess an upright portion' :inside und y .extending por in said 'upright portion and its ends passingv y throu hth'e apertures in the bracket, and nutsor clamping the Ufbolt andbracket to the side bar. i. l

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature., i FRIEDRICH LEDERER.' 

